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of the National Emigration Society of Montreal. The board 

 of directors consist of 36 ladies with an advisory board of 7 

 gentlemen. Miss Fowler, who is sacrificing so much, natur- 

 ally has an important voice in the management. The mem- 

 bership fee is $1.00, the Government grant $500. The chief 

 difiiculty the association has is to get a good class of domestics 

 to come to the country. The members do not like to run the 

 risk of furnishing the passage money, but in the short time 

 the home has existed, it has been, and in future it ought to 

 be, useful in connection with the Government immigration. 

 The association does not yet possess a building of its own, 

 and as the present roomy house on Assiniboine Avenue, allow- 

 ed free of rent by the Hudson's Bay Company, is only fit 

 for a summer residence, it is at present closed until the open- 

 ing of the spring immigration. The officers are : President, 

 Mrs. Parker ; vice-president, Mrs. W. H. Adams; secretary, 

 Mrs. Bole ; treasurer, Mrs. Grotty. 



THE CHILDKEN'S AID ASSOCIATION. 



In 1898 the local Legislature passed a statute called "An 

 Act for the Better Protection of iSTeglected and Dependent 

 Children." To insure the carrying out of this Act, an asso- 

 ciation was formed in this city called the " Children's Aid 

 Association," and this is the youngest of our city charities. 

 By the enactment, this association may be empowered by a 

 county court judge or magistrate to take possession of any 

 destitute orphan children, or any child that is being ill-used, 

 neglected or corrupted by its parents or guardians. The name 

 "child" applies in this Act to any boy under 14 or any girl 

 under 16 years of age. The association is thus constituted 

 guardian to such child. 



The children are first taken to a temporary shelter on 

 Mayf air Avenue, Fort Rouge, which has been rented by the 



